Top 5 favorite sci-fi/fantasy book series

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What are your top 5 book series in fantasy and/or sci-fi? Here's mine.
Fantasy:
LOTR
Narnia
Harry Potter
Percy Jackson/Heroes of Olympus
Chronicles of Prydain
Sci-fi:
Elijah Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw series (Isaac Asimov)
Animorphs
Space trilogy (CS Lewis)
Annah's Exile (book trilogy by Clay Gilbert, who I met on FB)
Dune

some are kinda combined sci-fi/fantasy, so in one (unordered) list:

Dragonriders of Pern, Crystal Singer, and The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffery
LOTR by J.R.R. Tolkien
Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Mission Earth by L. Ron Hubbard (NSFW and extremely funny)
Little Fuzzy and Paratime by H. Beam Piper
Foundation by Issac Asimov

Harry Potter
Lord Of The Rings
Chronicles Of Narnia
The Dark Tower Series
The Old Kingdom Trilogy

I generally prefer standalones to series, but...

Fantasy:
Harry Potter
Skulduggery Pleasant
Kingkiller
Daughter of Smoke and Bone
Discworld

Honourable mention: Peter Grant

Sci Fi:
Hitchhiker's Guide
The Long Earth
Silo
Chaos Walking

Then I really struggle to think of another compelling series... it's pretty hard to stretch out a good idea for three great books, and sci fi is driven by ideas ahead of characters. I've never read Asimov though.

I hope I haven?t forgotten some series I like better than the ones listed, but here goes. So hard to only pick 5!

In no particular order:

SF:
The B5 books
The ST Voyager books
Animorphs by K A Applegate
Last survivors by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Does ?Tomorrow when the war began? count as sci-fi? Hunger Games is another good candidate.

Fantasy:
Everworld by K A Applegate
Harry Potter
The Dragon Codex series by R D Henham
The midnighters
The last dragon chronicles by Chris d?Lacey

Yes, I'd agree with you there



and again

I'll have a go though:

The Lyonesse Trilogy - Jack Vance
The Dying Earth - Jack Vance (again)
Helliconia - Brian Aldiss
Gormenghast (well, the first two anyway) - Mervyn Peake
The Book of the New Sun - Gene Wolfe

Dune series
Gray Lensman series
Dark Tower series
Lord Of The Rings series
Original Conan stories.

My Top 5, in no particular order:

Asimov's Foundation trilogy, and the Foundation novels that came out later that were written by him and not someone else;
Harry Potter;
Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey and its sequels;
John Christopher's Tripod trilogy (I don't care for the prequel When the Tripods Came, which he wrote much later);
Madeline L'Engle's Time Quartet (I haven't actually read Many Waters; I think it's based on Noah's Ark, which I always thought was a stupid story. A fifth book, An Acceptable Time, follows the Quartet. I read it and wasn't that impressed.)